[Events] FanimeCon in 6 days…

I CANNOT WAIT

At the moment it is undetermined how many industry panels I’ll end up attending (since I’m a SERIOUS BUSINESS cosplayer and all), but I’ll be sure to attend the GAINAX panels this year for the chance of seeing some select seiyuu (Gurren Lagann pleaaaaaaase). There will be a quite a few events I’ll keep my eye on, like the AnCafe concert, the Masquerade show, and the Karaoke contest. I’ll be sure to keep my camera out at all times and report back on Monday!

If you are attending, you can find me as Tomoyo on Saturday (clannaids) or Kyonko on Sunday (lololol). I may do Kitsu Chiri (Zetsubou), but I have not decided on either Friday or Monday or not at all.

Anyway, see you at FanimeCon!

[Edit] Yeah, I do have a new layout.

[Nico] The Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga Family

First off, sorry for neglecting this blog for some time. The season of examinations flourishes in my school halls, so there hasn’t been much time to spend on my other interests. (Who am I kidding, I’m such a procastinator.)

Anyway, I’ve talked a lot about the Kumikyoku phenomenon on this site, and really, I’ve seem to become a nicochan since. I’ve also mentioned other versions previously on this blog, but I’d like to say that they actually weren’t related other than the fact that they are song medleys. Today I’m going to talk a little bit about the “official” Kumikyoku series, if you can call it official.

[Seiyuu] English Voice Actor Awards

Japan isn’t the only one with an appreciation for voice acting (obviously). In fact, this is also the 2nd year for both the Seiyuu Awards and Voice Actor awards. But since there have been all sorts of coverage of the Seiyuu Awards (and how rigged it is), I’ll put in my plug for the Voice Actor awards, also known as the Voicey Awards. I’ve been lazy to talk about this and it’s been more than a month since I found out about the results, but now it’s Spring Break, I have all the time in the world.

[Music] Animelo Summer Live 2008 website up w/Guest List

AniSama Live launched their 2008 website today; the theme for this year is Challenge. It will be held at the Saitama Super Arena and it will be held over two days–Saturday August 30th and Sunday, August 31st. So far the announced performers are:

[8/30] ALI PROJECT, GRANRODEO, Kuribayashi Minami, Chihara Minori, and Mizuki Nana
[8/31] Ishikawa Chiaki, JAM Project, Domestic Loveband (angela), Hirano Aya, and Moimoi Haruko.
Advanced lottery registration begins 4/14 and ends 4/28. Tickets are ￥7,500 per day. Regular sale date starts 6/21.

It seems that there will be some coverage to come on the Nico Channel as well, as expected of dwango. More info can be found on the website.

[Seiyuu] Chihara Minori 1st Live Tour DVD

Minorin’s site announced that the last performance of her 1st Live Tour (3/23) was recorded, thus will be released on DVD. The sale date will be 6/25 for a small price of ￥5,000.

Maybe that’s why they put up the manners notice before the last performance…. Below is a picture from the last performance, posted in her blog; Minorin w/band and staff.

[EDIT] 3 CMs have been released on the Lantis site for the DVD. I keep having issue when I try to access the video page, so here’s the nico link:
【ニコニコ動画】茅原実里ライブツアーDVD CM×３

[Nico] ガリれ：お Singer Trio Splitting Up!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!

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Sariya and Re: announced in their blogs today that their Nico Singer collaboration group will no longer be together. It seems that Sariya and Gazelle got into a fight, which ultimately led to their decision to break up. For what reasons that caused Gazelle’s uncharacteristic outburst is not really known. On March 31, all of their videos will be taken down, so watch ‘em now while you can. Luckily, some of them have been uploaded onto YouTube by this guy.
It was only a week ago that I started to enjoy their work, too… It’s really too bad.

Also, Sariya seems to have switched to her own vocal + piano collab with pianist AS; together they form Sweet Simple Little World. A mini live event was held last Thursday; you can see a small clip of the humorous opening number on the site (under the Little World tab). And yes, the audience did get to see her face(!). She’s currently working on a PV for one of her songs, as well. Anyway, for now we can only hope for recovery later on, at least as just friends.

モイモイ

[Seiyuu] Chihara Minori PV - Melty tale storage

As the release date for her new single draws closer, the PV for the title song has been released on Gyao, as Minorin states in her blog. But, you can also find the PV on Nico, in all its hand waving glory: 【ニコニコ動画】Melty tale storage - 茅原実里

In other news, said blog recently has received a small make over (again) and she recorded Chiaki’s character song. This weekend will also mark the last days of her 1st tour. Hopefully the audience will control themselves in accordance to the notice or we may not get to see her in concert again…

[Edit] Here’s the YouTube video: